Excerpt from A Daughter of Fife TO their inhabitants the sea is every thing. Their hopes and fears, their gains and losses, their joys and sorrows, are linked with it and the largeness Of the ocean has moulded their feelings and their characters. They are in a measure partakers Of its immensity and its mystery. The commonest Of their men have wrestled with the powers Of the air, and the might Of wind, and wave, and icy cold. The weakest Of their women have felt the hallowing touch Of sudden calamity, and of long, lonely, life-and-death, watches. They are intensely religious, they hold tenaciously to the modes Of thought and speech, to the manner Of living and dressing, and to all the household traditions which they have cherished for centuries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.